Rose City becoming Surf City’ tonight

Tonight, Chelsea Players coffeehouse concert series will turn Norwich into the “Surf City.”

The Bulletin

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Posted May. 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM

Posted May. 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM

Norwich, Conn.

Tonight, Chelsea Players coffeehouse concert series will turn Norwich into the “Surf City.”

Connecticut’s premier purveyors of instrumental surf music, The Clams, will invade the United Congregational Church hall at 7 p.m.

“Wax down your surfboards and put on your Hawaiian shirts because, for one night only, Chelsea Players Coffeehouse turns into a Tiki Bar,” said Ken Lamothe, producer of the show and long-time Chelsea Player. “Play it again, Clams.”

The Clams hail from central Connecticut, and will be accompanied by the Nouveaux Pony Banditos Go Go Dancers.

They have provided reverb soaked ’60s-styled surf music from Maine to Pennsylvania, appearing at Otto’s Shrunken Head in Manhattan, the Yarmouth Clam Festival in Maine, Clamapalooza in Portland, Maine, Coney Island, Surfapalooza in Maryland, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, the Webster Theater, Black-Eyed Sally’s as well as regular appearances at Cafe Nine in New Haven.